what about his towel?
In 1987 Craig Stadler had to play a shot from his knees by a tree. He placed a towel on the ground so he wouldn’t get his pants dirty. Some mouth-breathing no-life called and said that Stadler had “built a stance” which is against the rules of golf. Upon further review the officials agreed and Stadler was disqualified. The thing is the official referees on the course didn’t call it and Stadler didn’t think it was “building a stance”. I’m not going to debate the rule, my point is that it wasn’t the viewer’s place to make the call.
On a side note the groundskeepers decided to cut down the tree later and invited Stadler to do the honors.